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latioual Mfi'fkrjtffl Jtankii
VOL. XYI. NO. 27.
NEW YOBK, SATURDAY, NOYEMBEB 24, 1855.
WHOLE NO. 807.
national JMi-SUflfrg Stiiittwri).
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
h Fifth St., Philadelphia.
Iru-SlBbKg,
THE NORTH AND SOUTH.
ii KtiOM REV. DR, BRECKINRIDGE TO
Dilli) i'i/itei of Oct. 22, containing a speech delivered by
you designed it as a peculiar distini
devoted a paragraph lo inc. Jf it was' th,
I hardly know w
e only bond which e
ith of us might hava lea
o those classic h
boyhood, lit the li'el ol that emit teacher. Kliphal.
forty ir
, has brought us both I
; that we sfc
n the high places u
;""luinou,'c
tinctle expressed limn bv saying that
face, you li, trifle recklessly, from the I _
carlh, ivi'h tin: pence, the union and the elorv of that
country which Lin honour, _
from t hi' depth sof re l.iivm, n! Cor the renown, ftie ailvnin
me,if. and Ihe hauoiuess of t.hnt same country, nt
an the humblest ol her
your speech are not. entitled to remark, except as ll
are thoroughly charaelcrh-iic mid except as they atten
1,. embody the < sm:1ico of vour ihonchl. "The Con
and tin- LY,.-.,- The Polities -J .Ui-tn-.e, Kipmlitii ,
iriey, an educated man in high position should set. s<
imi to his pandering to thai which is at once false
fuobte. Why, Sir, "Eijiuility, Fraternitij," the leg
and no one, after P
it ils being, thus far, more
r liking. Rhetoric has its
■s as well as statesmanship; and fie who proles.,,;.'
ulity to speak otherwise than " thoughtfully, sin-
the i
f slavery "; and ti
.s you pom
r parties,and powerfully organii-ed
rable, perpetual.
„ .the body of -
,:■ i arrive at. length clearly at the conclusion
tog-ether in one body, by their natural uiiinity,
'tic object. And so there must remain, as
the bosom of this great bo-pal,Hcaii I'arty,
jonh'Msy uliinh. yuii say, J! is ihe very end of the party
j " foster and direct" in a manner " durable
lulling threats, which the Interests, tin; principles, tbe
I ' '
rany.
It is towards the close of your speech, in the mid. f ,
generation-: and forms of society, that, you have seen fit t
if I were of myself a power to be classed with the princ:
palities and dominions amidst which yoa expatiate. It i
upon this paragraph that I design to make some observi
quote the whole of it:
li party, ri:
■ ■: - , , ■ ■
iling, 1 demand of j
untry, was not the qu
.ou, Sir
,,f statin;!' il -■■will you jeopard
sake of three oi
laves, situated as the slaves it:
from shunning the ipiestion or
timely, an honest question'.' Will yon, Mir- 1 repeat, the
f stating it—w:"
e: '.,' .
.oufd so utti
our memory. I put the .pieslioli to you, not.
aifekniili'r of slavery and you its mortal enem;
it :i~ one patriot to aaol her, as one freeman li
sityo
f pern
except in one way- a question whieli every j.
citi/on is obliged now, anil has been obliged mi
on the peril of his country's glory—a questioi
.red, has save" "
lent of our National
st in Go.
y profession; and
government
wholly Strange to wai: and l.here I lahe issui' with you—
answered, bus siivcd the country, from the
hfalness and skill therein, [n,tolling v.nir [ires,ml
s, allow me to refer you to Mr. Sunn
e ethics of Government ought
less the grand and immediate ends of it. as truly held by
the Amerieauipcople, demand that, slavery, n.s'it exists
and in utter disregard of the - irifetif' of the nation ? Do
you mean that? 1 so understand you. I so understood
Mr. Sumner. That I understand to be treason r, gainst,
son against the country. And the end of it must be that
the North must sweep your"great Republican Party"
into the besom of destruction,' or we must settle your
ethics of govern men f wilh the sword. And, .-ir, I will
add ibis much rnorv I o what I said to Mr. Sumner,
That if your parly holds your doctrines, the Not
more deeply interest!::] in abolishing it than in al
alavery._ For no free people on the lace of the eai
endure its permanent dominion ; and no form of u
Ie despotism under
Its welfare is tbe
% you have either falsely stated the
principles ami aims of your party or you are ignorant of
tin- fin co of the terms you use, and your personal taunts
ye-' :.,,mi M,ivii:,M,ee a. likely to result frorr
s villainy ? Do you suppose that it consists
with any el hies in the world, except ,ho ethics ef tyrants
---' """"uges, that the sixteen INorthern States should con-
degrade and oppress the fillcen Southern Slate.-'.
.nd savages, that the si
' o degrade and oj
j, in the fifteen t
. mm
tli ours? Yon speak withe'
fhe Missouri Compromise, i
took any part in if. and esooi
' lour. And why'. Ileeaa-i
of bad faith ,■, ,
States, a portion of the
like as well as it doet
a portion of the popu-
tes exist? What is it
ir, is not the independ-
- the South, with dis-
1 of your great Republican I'arty, -
ihe Constitution itself and I
the single purpose of securing it. on
t of the North, in utter disregard ,
,oo can fully leach that the p
object V
pi liei|.!.
I mill.
I, indeed, of late, they are, nevertheless, ft
mental, primeval ami perpetual at tin; North, rumiing
side by side wilh all their tacred pledges to a contrary
towards God, and in,undies- fratermly lor flu; poor skive I
tis no part ol my business, Sir, fo lie a stalesmaii,
am I, except in the widest sense, even a politician. 1
only a plain man who loves his whole country, and is
I deeply deplore the repeal ,,I Us- .Mi.-onri Compromise,
great, r error of tin' South ■ .is ihe event, 1
,ved. 1 did all a private person, situated a-
it error. I foresail and urged upon the di.
ember of Congress whoso constituent I
tbe consideration due to his great virtues
and with all the earnestness allowed in an
■d kiusiin,ii wi;,:. loved him like a son—most
t lees faithful to both now.
f tiny had, I i
i my whole coi
supposed it to be—nay, than you make it out—it is at
comparison with the principles you avow am
au propose; nothing in the vastnessof thceviL
-1. result.- tin- deliberate perkily of tin- mean
used—the atrocious wickedness of the object
and dissolving the Unio:
it method o
e the country ii
a country into civil war?
rrpose to array those two great s
position u;,s been dearly
must be maintained, by such n
h Mr. Sumner at Iheir In ail. i
attack it. everywhere; you, at the head <
you, Si
' have t
respectable that
lead public
position absolutely childish, pretending thereby to justify
ie boundless perfidy of his principles, an>"
liable mischief of bis conduct. Can you
threatened, which have arms i
only the dissolution of the Union
iC'dness to put y
sly excited, i
io, he places
tiding therth
the boundless perfidy of his principles, and t
l fhe country in
the paragraph
'■ 'ban those I
■mi and iiliy thousand slave-
■siiiv.fioiiiiu:: white men." Then you
" and the interests of the latter
or put in jeopardy for the
reached in tbis little trick of oratory," 1
1 whether the safety ami iin' it
ueht to be sacrificed or put in j
f the former. And the dim
of oratory," 1 k
ard, you have been the Govern
j thei
ing in your
isideriu:: the ;■;•
you for this kind of s
should not know that, as matter of argument,
of rhetorii
._. _...iiderine ■
heartless ti
asinsignifica.nl as you protend, the prcnci
lie public, mind lln'ouglmul. ibe Repaid:
only the most inexplicable, but the mot
""Hi I,"II eve, i:shihiie,iumoi;g-a ll.oivili.ie
people. Thehucksters in the City of New York, con
pared wilh Its whole population—the boatmen on ym
canals, contrasted with all the people of your State, woul
you than "this handful of detestable and pdw
in the grasp of so many millions of freemen. Whatevi
may be the number of slaveholders in America, this t
least is obvious upon your own showing, that the dread
of thera has penetrated thirteen Stm.es so deeply thai
they have dissolved all other political parties in order to
form one great Republican party, by means ol whieli to
preserve, if possible, their own liberty, a result so doubtful as apparently to fill you with the greatest anxiety I
Whatever may be the proportion of slaveholders to non-
slaveholders in the slave States, it is past all doubt that,
in every on." of them, flic great majority of the neonle arc
opposed to any disturbance of the int
the conflict with your great Be"'"
be more unanimous and dcteri
great Eepublican Party, they wi
I should
3 broken up a few thoughts ; but i have not
was under any obligation to defend that paper
ho thought proper to attack it If Ihave
id.y tha:
.1 dom before
] the
I desire t
upon
eof t
toiler bear- in
am.ill,■!- aspect.
pleased to remember that the testimony 1 bear and tbe
principle:; i avow are those of a
life now leaning towards old age.
peculiar relations to the subject oi Slavery,
Waring
lankin
i that subject, in all i
■ ■
(if any serious el
;. While I woi
•ion which may
.osrri and in so n
ons of the two quarters, and which has been infli
by a great variety of causes. The question whh
' iricrican people mu-t now settle is no less than
e they desirous, in i. i nie they capable, in the new posture
■ wholly inilepciidcnl of any <
ma any longer
t all, by which
ration of tin'States and civil war
: and patriotic man, let his opinioi
God, that I c
;ry parly ll
progivi
over with public
*o wag a tongue
I" i ", ,
there fori
ingei, Sir, that tiic posture of the North
losture of the South is by no means the same.
The South has slaves—the North has none. The South,
. s liable to a pressure Irom tbe North, to wtich
ie South mav not only be expected to do, but
ai she would gladly avoid if she
. rated. Nor must we allow our-
-elves io for,,-i ilnii this was '.I the origin:'! posture of
the condition of things under which the Con-
,nd afterwards
tthe
tally, slave]
jffst" States, everv one" oi
ourite apothegm tha
■ any upon your ar(
h a term to incoherc
,t slavery, if it exist
and that, as long as
re must be laws abc
ipolhegm nor about youi
7, and at the same time having' chant
""kI to demand that the boutm
other, in follow her oxainpk
formed—not the condition
fterwards amongst* States, every oni
'» make, Sir, upon yottr
y is local, freedom national;
if it is allowable to apply
tions, that it is beyond the
sate slavery. It is enough
must have a place to exist
The peril now is not over
■ speculations on the nature
the places in which slavery may
■■flaw: bid if
herself entitled t
respects ;
lowers of
object. Thereupon she proceeds t
authority, to shape tl
[icy of the Federal
wholly regardlest
1, fun I
i'onsolid
the policy of the Federal Governm,
for safety at
■n.d I,
n the m
ion itself upon which the North ente
nto effect, upon any subject, whatever,
i not only the
very objeeb
r itself. 1 ask you, Sir, calmly,
. fight the North at
1 the slaves, after a
, for the North to say whether she
) blood. I uttered i
Lii'i-d thai the equality of phys
l Caplaim
that her own soil wi
nor denied wi
wholly on God's gift
of will dray™ hen]
be conclusive against the counsel you give
you propose.
.,',.■■ .■ ■
from immense and durable influences which
1 think 1 see in your i.nation the general c
that state of opinion which is so peculiar ti
politics, and which has heen so manifest throughout your
whole political ~
therefore, greater signifii
possible that the
:,-ky. ami will,
"dhood; and
what I say.
38 0" "
,, who had
en conquered fron
ble portion of it I did no
'$, a
Ihood ; and
;s of the
quentlif
me side by side with theirs. I have d
ti honoured
know then that these
playm.
expect
iffered with them
ibont man;, aspects of this very question of domestic
.lavcry. i.ut, Sir. what, is slaver., to me, compared with
he lives, the fortunes, the honour, the safety of these
non'. What is the lab: of a handful of poor African.; io
no. compared with the fate of these men? And SO we
.il feel. I fell you. Sir, it was luainh one torn of thi-
loop, intense, hereditary feeling which prevented this
•laic six years ago-- nnd prevented it iv-ah
leloi'c thai and prevented il af first sixty-Ill roe year's
I, like the I
mtry, they will stand by every n
will stand by each other, they
party that stands by thi
k-. they wild preserve our National institutions prf
ly as they received them from the hands of thei
"" "' ie_xorahie necessity obliges them to do ii
lood of trail
Jf 'inexorable necessily oliii
>rs. At. the last extremity, they wil
land, but they will never submit, to la; dishonoured or'
heir country, nor will Ihey permit yon to do it, without
, : , ■.'■.,:■■■■ ii'
l ou: Mr. Seward, have much apparent right to speak
speak in the nam« of the Stale of kon:n; .
:, the greatest of the free States, has the least into-
!; of all that slavery should be abolished. Kentucky,
most exposed of all the groat, slave States, has the
;t interest of all that slavery should continue. New
rk will no* abide by your principles—Kentucky will
Your obedient servant, Ro, •!, B keck ink iimi.;.
link, aud some are willing, on a first opportunity, to
SilV—tint! tin' fi;-1 liiiei (>( n knolls attempt iiii tht tlitfl
uf the. Gni-eriiment al WiiM/ngio.i to makt w.i.r for tin.
be to break up the Union. Only let'this "
'.AND AND THE UNTIED ST ATE S-
SI..H )--RY IND THE UNION.
h; Decern
whii-h we ho
cry remarkable se
Kngland—a soffici.
ways disapproved of by a very h
-'- tnd by i--—
understood as by the people of Ivieianii. Mr. .Madison.
i Iiiii 1'resident, was charged with French leanings, as his
and predecessor, Jefferson, had been : and the acne
larrel with England, he bad to take hold of tin;
: that he was a tool of Bonaparte's. The real
of the war on that side of the Atlantic are illus-
, , ■ | il,,, 'i i
immediate effect of the war was to aihlei the Northcru
reason whatever that they could perceive;
■O :..'.■. i ,
why the European Powers should
the Cent!;
uarrels. The \'c\\ England.
d aid to be bad
■g the Norther
■lied wiif, war
tern to the hon
■cause the slim
ing- through ihe surrounding'
appoin
■ehensive principles of policy, t
, Con
gross.
e Const
liarlfoto I (invention. The
uless two-thirds of ihi: members ofhoth
1 again, that two-thirds of
both houses must be in favour of any suspension of ,■,:,,.-
this Convention was suggested by Ma-saehusctls. Ihe I'oi'e-
■telligence and honour,
ade before the propo-
proposed was, that Congress should not have power
make war unless two-thirds of the memberr
should be in favour of it
.: ■■ e :
* the for*
ef the Union,
Eeiicfnt GuKe.mnieiit, -wii.i iiL'n.iu nn,r,: .',, opposition to an
lna- sister States of Now England have hail abundant
occasion to recognise the true souree of all iu!i-i-naiii,;.al
difficulties which have arisen from the war of 1812 (inclusive) till now. In lS12,it was the Southern inlcivst,
whole ui
,ined by the institution of slavery,
gcr I" eonnneree, orbytt ' '
with their regular troops a
.ting Northern Presidents) v
:ish ll'ro
declared accordingly. Tim.
the galh
swamps,
and fall, as they #
>untry. On that occai
qCom
Florida war, the real cause of which was little undcrs
hy even the gallant New Knglanders, who went d
nto the swamps, among the "yelling Indian devils.
Southern slavehol
of the fire for them.' Neg
had escaped from the slave States into the swamn
Florida, and there the m
; slav,: Slates, the children of n
oh
e the TJni
ation. As all the world knows,
e and populous North was again burdened
it was with the'Mexican war. In a i
a Ana, we exhibited the p
the , vidian;,: whleh is before ihe c;
lhal of the fathers of their Kepublii
We have rebuked t
-Cass, Soule, Everett, so I others who hi
of the first Presidents and their const
led no«
1) tell tl
3 their acquisi
e from thei:
.ce in the i ., .
in of labourers'
the negro race in the enjoyment of
freedom, while still in the condition of labourers. As to
the circumstances in their own position, io which ihey
appeal tola' blind, they are these. The Czars of Rif-
::ia ,;,(. ■linking tools "of iln-ii,. eren .is 11,(1/ t.nl,„<,.',■, ■■■
rivnle Hi-is of their Yankee felhw-dtizcns. It Is convenient ' Russia that they should occupy themselves and
bv picking a quarrel with England and France. Tbe
" 'o Russian flat-
tned by the knowledge which ought to 1
" ">rty years. Th
amount at the 1
md the policy and aims of the Soutt
clearly in 1855 than their Fathers did in 1814,
prepared lo desire and claim that war shall bt
iltiof.il i.eiristatarc? And are they resolved to
their nation shall not meanwhile be plunged into
, the lawless aggressions of Americans on neighbouring
uperior qualifications (for Southei
stitm
worthy representation of
n part by a
itituency without ]
unworthin
ri1cana^tas°Bof the
Of ll
, ll.-'!;: ,,:,,.-'.! ■ :
prospect.
st friend
of their friendship
" Lher talk of it.
f the free, populor
m States, we ma
ie ground on which the elite
nertcans assert tnat an attempt to go to war v
II breakup the Union.
ay further talk of it. Mean-
ction of the frei,
telligent and prosperous Northern States,
Ohanning deferred foi
Texas. Then: arc very many mm,I men. in \ morion, who,
; Charming, are silent in ordinary times, but can speak
I act in the great crises of the Republic. Every one
those will assuredly consider a war of aggression—a
t with tbe liberating powers of Europe—a war with
free descendants of their own forefathers, a crime
mst not be perpetrated even if the penalty were
■ir I'lyiuoiitl, Koek nuisi crumble into the sea,
We are telling
i alarm the I
hen the North, altei louM'subuil
the minority from " "*
lolher the Coi
■iends of Republican
'" :r long'subj
(In- South.
was evident to all Europe, as it had long been to all wise
American-, that the Union must break up in discord,
=s its subjects could agree (and agree soonl to weed
the compromi
said, that whenev,
.Chfexch
'there!'!
M,d ae-iii-,;
lexclusi '
of the Unio
than she complains of the treast
which show how empty were h
She complains of property espi
i which renders it now unworkable,
wspapers of recent dates—the tidings
la: wry heart of the Ul
spoken thus. After referri
: theNortt ' "
in their org;
I . ■ ■■■:: '.■-
t carrying out its hosti"
Southern party, and
South, hi
K » Ili.li,
threats
lie Wi
Charleston, tin
and the
organizations, the days
" The Charleston
hostility to the
other l.iiii;.'-
of her weakness
I the
,ap ,1
i of iheir own supremacy in C
quarrel till now. Where they have
been by the nature of things, and run
North. They complain thai the Iree
populous, while they themselves are " i
and in a continually decreasing nuno
whose richne.s they hold out tempting
from Europe who, 1"
g fast
0 South ;
,nd loo;
arty year
her id her word. The fir;
war. The present time is remarkably favours
device. The Czar's emissaries have flattered t
the cupidity and the prejudices of that class (lar
despots or slaves. Spain
of a foreign
flattered the vanity,
" ' class (large in
.....
■
France with the war ; so that a great amo ' "
devoted to Southern inter*
page of American history will show to all poster:
This Cabinet is now the speaking-trumpet of the sk
tral) of silencing opposit
l\ ;.-b
',byn
' the <
Will the policy succeed ? Will the event justify the
or.th in her confidence that the North will allow her is
nih, ■■ ■■ ..
i'i, i:,rj:l:imlvov.ii.Uiiher;i,irel!n: Union for n j nrthei
rm or break it up at once. Which is the , i
ment proposal of wai
We think so for the
(ith England would be the
■nod war thiiu they had in that
to endure. They have mat
o the forfeiture <
ights of the free coloured
ound the Court-.
.umelious turning out of their envoy,
Charleston to assert the constitutional
, of the New England
twenty years a padlock 'on t
f Massachusetts on his ow
inting-press under the laws of that fre<
,vc borne more indignities than we hav
n threshold
! State. They
r throwing oil'the yoke,
ii prooably be decided by iin
Wi,.-; ' ,.,:■,
n (the " Cradle of Liberty "), called by " the property
city, to put down the i
very trade with the £
ties to preserve. Tv
ie free States of the A
that of the South—i
own account: aud impoverished, as
hich they pawned thei
ri ign commerce, and lhal. o I' the free States
upo-
md heavy tread. Whatever trade there may be witn the West Indies is worth
:.', d ihey will be slow to risk their other id
trade by collision with tin; great naval power of the w
Again, they truly revere the Act of Union frame
their fathers, as they have shown only too well by
exaggerated and costly dread of danger to it di
twenty years of political subserviency. They Imi
founders of the Republic exerted their utmost ingenuity
could I)
■, and that
that the free States find the vast North-West
hrown open to slavery by the repeal of the Mis
iromise — now that ihey see the free settle
2 actually the majority of i bo popnlai
" "leir polifict'
....: !
their prospects, in
them relatives by b
leges and social v
r against their best customei
heir comrades in political pri'
ami a-piral.ioiis. Ihe ullian
, ;"■,'... ■'. ■.'.■ ■ .. ■-...'-.
the life-Mood of both, i
a stab at Europe
e renowned for their
..aid of th-
s that quality. Prudent as they are, they know,
. else may be s
f. Pru," -*
Io, that their
Brave they are; capable of endurance, enthu-
I cause and render it victorious ; but their origin,
aining and individual
a tosuceeed in aggres-
i of the North know
filiibustering order of
that
,ofea«iOE.l imlita
ill ia,
L",a°Sarflll.1'Th
.^;z»,iLh.
ts rank among the fore:
o this mighty questio
by any number of unscr
ily and permanently represented
of the multitude. There fa ;>
■ :, i:e:S Of theVhok.
: their Plyni
with Americai
j that the proposal of war
ie Union. The danger is
States from all questionable e:
■■.',.: be I ween the nations through all provoca
. forget that an Everett, from the Nortl
.nifest destiny " of their
■"■■
do
haps othei
"maiiile.
peopled
h d
dies of Ihe
e hope that there are Northern
mwealth dowered with the highest hopes and 1
ANTI-SLAVERY AGITATION.
mber of Tke
err, has brought before your readers
lited States of Ame
sanctions given, as a
the system of slaveholdin;
ti-slavery agitation in
" le to the consiitu-
id others deny, to
wish to say anything further than that h
and his friends for him show sign; *" '
the wrong by continually obtrudi
they have never in,
holding contrary opinion; to thei
Atlantic should at length brea!
■
-Olillli- h
leader in (he anfi-siavery cans*
with personal mo
sions which tbey profe
States into our English I
i 'eo-litilil
ry truth, or as a fitting
! your columns taken up
e United
is of England and of the United i
which they profess 1,
on upholds slavery is one of s
I would beg you to permit n
oonit.
itutionsofl' '
Thel'ornn-ris based Oi
in written charters or law.-. \. i
, ritten document. The former is the growth o:
he latter the fruits of a Conference which sat s
ad-sixty years ago f
istory and constitutional lawj while i
ne document always to refer
lelf, we have the
lelming majority of the citi-
States of America; we have the legal
the United States you ha^
s of the various Courts. All t
certainly of very origl
the strong point of the
Ihi C,r
;y party
The word slave di
lis is, however, onl
tbe part of'Amerie;
re very desirous of
rongly objecting to its name
They speak of ''the poculia
-tude," 4c, clearly (
it slavery carries its
lery disproves the a:
; l . ■.. . ' : . i ■
n-stealer kno
linst God's ev
Before the Cousti
C:nor;i! 1
lioMo ,: I;
in the c;
holders main-
■.. 'A.-- that the
i formed, this euphemism
the c
I that
n £rivate li1
omiOii
tnha-
the garrison,
the refinements iif ibe Kngl
Inited States to discover thi
iously belonging to inhabitants of these States*
With a fact like thi- before ,e. wc must not conclude
slavery
•iiiii-i '
e the word slav
gue as
property
e Constitution,
.. and din
ral States which may h
n the Union
and excluding India:
free persons ; they a
it body, fie said." Wo api
■:■",: in our Struggl
low. when Wi' had scarcely a
supplicating His mercy and ]
it taxed, threc-Bfths of
it apprentices; they a
1 will prove
' ': member
n liberty,
i from our knees
n of our G'overmncnt provisions
tot, only pulling ii out. oi ils power io restrain and pre-
,-i'iif. the -lain: leaiiiJ- but even encouraging that most
nfamous traffic, by g.'r;;.,";' States pon. r nnd influence in
he Lin/on in proportion n.- toiij .■'."■ ■'''.'/ and wantonly
port Willi I!,,/ nuiil-i , /' man." 'i'lic: only property which
rives a vote at an election of repo -.■■i..;,lives ia slave pro-
"icrtyl Is not tills a direct, 'nin-lii.n of >hiveholding, and
Iocs it not in ten si the slavehuder in increasing the num.
>er of his slaves so that his political power may be increased?
Another clause in tbe Constitution, Art IV., Sec. 2,
st he germ of the Fugitive Slave law, providing that such
dgitive "shall bo delivered up on claim of the party to
vlie.ui such service or labour may be due." Thus tha
.,-.!■ --, ■
nan can be due lo another, iwainsi iin: will or wish of the
IV"., Sec. 4, the Constitution guarantees that
" " "Inion shall, if necessary, be em-
iestic violence.'' No doubt this
salutary clause ; but it pledges
the whole force of the Union
ployed to put down " dom
I could g
e at length than I have
too much of your space
i make my concluding

latioual Mfi'fkrjtffl Jtankii
VOL. XYI. NO. 27.
NEW YOBK, SATURDAY, NOYEMBEB 24, 1855.
WHOLE NO. 807.
national JMi-SUflfrg Stiiittwri).
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
h Fifth St., Philadelphia.
Iru-SlBbKg,
THE NORTH AND SOUTH.
ii KtiOM REV. DR, BRECKINRIDGE TO
Dilli) i'i/itei of Oct. 22, containing a speech delivered by
you designed it as a peculiar distini
devoted a paragraph lo inc. Jf it was' th,
I hardly know w
e only bond which e
ith of us might hava lea
o those classic h
boyhood, lit the li'el ol that emit teacher. Kliphal.
forty ir
, has brought us both I
; that we sfc
n the high places u
;""luinou,'c
tinctle expressed limn bv saying that
face, you li, trifle recklessly, from the I _
carlh, ivi'h tin: pence, the union and the elorv of that
country which Lin honour, _
from t hi' depth sof re l.iivm, n! Cor the renown, ftie ailvnin
me,if. and Ihe hauoiuess of t.hnt same country, nt
an the humblest ol her
your speech are not. entitled to remark, except as ll
are thoroughly charaelcrh-iic mid except as they atten
1,. embody the < sm:1ico of vour ihonchl. "The Con
and tin- LY,.-.,- The Polities -J .Ui-tn-.e, Kipmlitii ,
iriey, an educated man in high position should set. s<
imi to his pandering to thai which is at once false
fuobte. Why, Sir, "Eijiuility, Fraternitij," the leg
and no one, after P
it ils being, thus far, more
r liking. Rhetoric has its
■s as well as statesmanship; and fie who proles.,,;.'
ulity to speak otherwise than " thoughtfully, sin-
the i
f slavery "; and ti
.s you pom
r parties,and powerfully organii-ed
rable, perpetual.
„ .the body of -
,:■ i arrive at. length clearly at the conclusion
tog-ether in one body, by their natural uiiinity,
'tic object. And so there must remain, as
the bosom of this great bo-pal,Hcaii I'arty,
jonh'Msy uliinh. yuii say, J! is ihe very end of the party
j " foster and direct" in a manner " durable
lulling threats, which the Interests, tin; principles, tbe
I ' '
rany.
It is towards the close of your speech, in the mid. f ,
generation-: and forms of society, that, you have seen fit t
if I were of myself a power to be classed with the princ:
palities and dominions amidst which yoa expatiate. It i
upon this paragraph that I design to make some observi
quote the whole of it:
li party, ri:
■ ■: - , , ■ ■
iling, 1 demand of j
untry, was not the qu
.ou, Sir
,,f statin;!' il -■■will you jeopard
sake of three oi
laves, situated as the slaves it:
from shunning the ipiestion or
timely, an honest question'.' Will yon, Mir- 1 repeat, the
f stating it—w:"
e: '.,' .
.oufd so utti
our memory. I put the .pieslioli to you, not.
aifekniili'r of slavery and you its mortal enem;
it :i~ one patriot to aaol her, as one freeman li
sityo
f pern
except in one way- a question whieli every j.
citi/on is obliged now, anil has been obliged mi
on the peril of his country's glory—a questioi
.red, has save" "
lent of our National
st in Go.
y profession; and
government
wholly Strange to wai: and l.here I lahe issui' with you—
answered, bus siivcd the country, from the
hfalness and skill therein, [n,tolling v.nir [ires,ml
s, allow me to refer you to Mr. Sunn
e ethics of Government ought
less the grand and immediate ends of it. as truly held by
the Amerieauipcople, demand that, slavery, n.s'it exists
and in utter disregard of the - irifetif' of the nation ? Do
you mean that? 1 so understand you. I so understood
Mr. Sumner. That I understand to be treason r, gainst,
son against the country. And the end of it must be that
the North must sweep your"great Republican Party"
into the besom of destruction,' or we must settle your
ethics of govern men f wilh the sword. And, .-ir, I will
add ibis much rnorv I o what I said to Mr. Sumner,
That if your parly holds your doctrines, the Not
more deeply interest!::] in abolishing it than in al
alavery._ For no free people on the lace of the eai
endure its permanent dominion ; and no form of u
Ie despotism under
Its welfare is tbe
% you have either falsely stated the
principles ami aims of your party or you are ignorant of
tin- fin co of the terms you use, and your personal taunts
ye-' :.,,mi M,ivii:,M,ee a. likely to result frorr
s villainy ? Do you suppose that it consists
with any el hies in the world, except ,ho ethics ef tyrants
---' """"uges, that the sixteen INorthern States should con-
degrade and oppress the fillcen Southern Slate.-'.
.nd savages, that the si
' o degrade and oj
j, in the fifteen t
. mm
tli ours? Yon speak withe'
fhe Missouri Compromise, i
took any part in if. and esooi
' lour. And why'. Ileeaa-i
of bad faith ,■, ,
States, a portion of the
like as well as it doet
a portion of the popu-
tes exist? What is it
ir, is not the independ-
- the South, with dis-
1 of your great Republican I'arty, -
ihe Constitution itself and I
the single purpose of securing it. on
t of the North, in utter disregard ,
,oo can fully leach that the p
object V
pi liei|.!.
I mill.
I, indeed, of late, they are, nevertheless, ft
mental, primeval ami perpetual at tin; North, rumiing
side by side wilh all their tacred pledges to a contrary
towards God, and in,undies- fratermly lor flu; poor skive I
tis no part ol my business, Sir, fo lie a stalesmaii,
am I, except in the widest sense, even a politician. 1
only a plain man who loves his whole country, and is
I deeply deplore the repeal ,,I Us- .Mi.-onri Compromise,
great, r error of tin' South ■ .is ihe event, 1
,ved. 1 did all a private person, situated a-
it error. I foresail and urged upon the di.
ember of Congress whoso constituent I
tbe consideration due to his great virtues
and with all the earnestness allowed in an
■d kiusiin,ii wi;,:. loved him like a son—most
t lees faithful to both now.
f tiny had, I i
i my whole coi
supposed it to be—nay, than you make it out—it is at
comparison with the principles you avow am
au propose; nothing in the vastnessof thceviL
-1. result.- tin- deliberate perkily of tin- mean
used—the atrocious wickedness of the object
and dissolving the Unio:
it method o
e the country ii
a country into civil war?
rrpose to array those two great s
position u;,s been dearly
must be maintained, by such n
h Mr. Sumner at Iheir In ail. i
attack it. everywhere; you, at the head <
you, Si
' have t
respectable that
lead public
position absolutely childish, pretending thereby to justify
ie boundless perfidy of his principles, an>"
liable mischief of bis conduct. Can you
threatened, which have arms i
only the dissolution of the Union
iC'dness to put y
sly excited, i
io, he places
tiding therth
the boundless perfidy of his principles, and t
l fhe country in
the paragraph
'■ 'ban those I
■mi and iiliy thousand slave-
■siiiv.fioiiiiu:: white men." Then you
" and the interests of the latter
or put in jeopardy for the
reached in tbis little trick of oratory," 1
1 whether the safety ami iin' it
ueht to be sacrificed or put in j
f the former. And the dim
of oratory," 1 k
ard, you have been the Govern
j thei
ing in your
isideriu:: the ;■;•
you for this kind of s
should not know that, as matter of argument,
of rhetorii
._. _...iiderine ■
heartless ti
asinsignifica.nl as you protend, the prcnci
lie public, mind lln'ouglmul. ibe Repaid:
only the most inexplicable, but the mot
""Hi I,"II eve, i:shihiie,iumoi;g-a ll.oivili.ie
people. Thehucksters in the City of New York, con
pared wilh Its whole population—the boatmen on ym
canals, contrasted with all the people of your State, woul
you than "this handful of detestable and pdw
in the grasp of so many millions of freemen. Whatevi
may be the number of slaveholders in America, this t
least is obvious upon your own showing, that the dread
of thera has penetrated thirteen Stm.es so deeply thai
they have dissolved all other political parties in order to
form one great Republican party, by means ol whieli to
preserve, if possible, their own liberty, a result so doubtful as apparently to fill you with the greatest anxiety I
Whatever may be the proportion of slaveholders to non-
slaveholders in the slave States, it is past all doubt that,
in every on." of them, flic great majority of the neonle arc
opposed to any disturbance of the int
the conflict with your great Be"'"
be more unanimous and dcteri
great Eepublican Party, they wi
I should
3 broken up a few thoughts ; but i have not
was under any obligation to defend that paper
ho thought proper to attack it If Ihave
id.y tha:
.1 dom before
] the
I desire t
upon
eof t
toiler bear- in
am.ill,■!- aspect.
pleased to remember that the testimony 1 bear and tbe
principle:; i avow are those of a
life now leaning towards old age.
peculiar relations to the subject oi Slavery,
Waring
lankin
i that subject, in all i
■ ■
(if any serious el
;. While I woi
•ion which may
.osrri and in so n
ons of the two quarters, and which has been infli
by a great variety of causes. The question whh
' iricrican people mu-t now settle is no less than
e they desirous, in i. i nie they capable, in the new posture
■ wholly inilepciidcnl of any <
ma any longer
t all, by which
ration of tin'States and civil war
: and patriotic man, let his opinioi
God, that I c
;ry parly ll
progivi
over with public
*o wag a tongue
I" i ", ,
there fori
ingei, Sir, that tiic posture of the North
losture of the South is by no means the same.
The South has slaves—the North has none. The South,
. s liable to a pressure Irom tbe North, to wtich
ie South mav not only be expected to do, but
ai she would gladly avoid if she
. rated. Nor must we allow our-
-elves io for,,-i ilnii this was '.I the origin:'! posture of
the condition of things under which the Con-
,nd afterwards
tthe
tally, slave]
jffst" States, everv one" oi
ourite apothegm tha
■ any upon your ar(
h a term to incoherc
,t slavery, if it exist
and that, as long as
re must be laws abc
ipolhegm nor about youi
7, and at the same time having' chant
""kI to demand that the boutm
other, in follow her oxainpk
formed—not the condition
fterwards amongst* States, every oni
'» make, Sir, upon yottr
y is local, freedom national;
if it is allowable to apply
tions, that it is beyond the
sate slavery. It is enough
must have a place to exist
The peril now is not over
■ speculations on the nature
the places in which slavery may
■■flaw: bid if
herself entitled t
respects ;
lowers of
object. Thereupon she proceeds t
authority, to shape tl
[icy of the Federal
wholly regardlest
1, fun I
i'onsolid
the policy of the Federal Governm,
for safety at
■n.d I,
n the m
ion itself upon which the North ente
nto effect, upon any subject, whatever,
i not only the
very objeeb
r itself. 1 ask you, Sir, calmly,
. fight the North at
1 the slaves, after a
, for the North to say whether she
) blood. I uttered i
Lii'i-d thai the equality of phys
l Caplaim
that her own soil wi
nor denied wi
wholly on God's gift
of will dray™ hen]
be conclusive against the counsel you give
you propose.
.,',.■■ .■ ■
from immense and durable influences which
1 think 1 see in your i.nation the general c
that state of opinion which is so peculiar ti
politics, and which has heen so manifest throughout your
whole political ~
therefore, greater signifii
possible that the
:,-ky. ami will,
"dhood; and
what I say.
38 0" "
,, who had
en conquered fron
ble portion of it I did no
'$, a
Ihood ; and
;s of the
quentlif
me side by side with theirs. I have d
ti honoured
know then that these
playm.
expect
iffered with them
ibont man;, aspects of this very question of domestic
.lavcry. i.ut, Sir. what, is slaver., to me, compared with
he lives, the fortunes, the honour, the safety of these
non'. What is the lab: of a handful of poor African.; io
no. compared with the fate of these men? And SO we
.il feel. I fell you. Sir, it was luainh one torn of thi-
loop, intense, hereditary feeling which prevented this
•laic six years ago-- nnd prevented it iv-ah
leloi'c thai and prevented il af first sixty-Ill roe year's
I, like the I
mtry, they will stand by every n
will stand by each other, they
party that stands by thi
k-. they wild preserve our National institutions prf
ly as they received them from the hands of thei
"" "' ie_xorahie necessity obliges them to do ii
lood of trail
Jf 'inexorable necessily oliii
>rs. At. the last extremity, they wil
land, but they will never submit, to la; dishonoured or'
heir country, nor will Ihey permit yon to do it, without
, : , ■.'■.,:■■■■ ii'
l ou: Mr. Seward, have much apparent right to speak
speak in the nam« of the Stale of kon:n; .
:, the greatest of the free States, has the least into-
!; of all that slavery should be abolished. Kentucky,
most exposed of all the groat, slave States, has the
;t interest of all that slavery should continue. New
rk will no* abide by your principles—Kentucky will
Your obedient servant, Ro, •!, B keck ink iimi.;.
link, aud some are willing, on a first opportunity, to
SilV—tint! tin' fi;-1 liiiei (>( n knolls attempt iiii tht tlitfl
uf the. Gni-eriiment al WiiM/ngio.i to makt w.i.r for tin.
be to break up the Union. Only let'this "
'.AND AND THE UNTIED ST ATE S-
SI..H )--RY IND THE UNION.
h; Decern
whii-h we ho
cry remarkable se
Kngland—a soffici.
ways disapproved of by a very h
-'- tnd by i--—
understood as by the people of Ivieianii. Mr. .Madison.
i Iiiii 1'resident, was charged with French leanings, as his
and predecessor, Jefferson, had been : and the acne
larrel with England, he bad to take hold of tin;
: that he was a tool of Bonaparte's. The real
of the war on that side of the Atlantic are illus-
, , ■ | il,,, 'i i
immediate effect of the war was to aihlei the Northcru
reason whatever that they could perceive;
■O :..'.■. i ,
why the European Powers should
the Cent!;
uarrels. The \'c\\ England.
d aid to be bad
■g the Norther
■lied wiif, war
tern to the hon
■cause the slim
ing- through ihe surrounding'
appoin
■ehensive principles of policy, t
, Con
gross.
e Const
liarlfoto I (invention. The
uless two-thirds of ihi: members ofhoth
1 again, that two-thirds of
both houses must be in favour of any suspension of ,■,:,,.-
this Convention was suggested by Ma-saehusctls. Ihe I'oi'e-
■telligence and honour,
ade before the propo-
proposed was, that Congress should not have power
make war unless two-thirds of the memberr
should be in favour of it
.: ■■ e :
* the for*
ef the Union,
Eeiicfnt GuKe.mnieiit, -wii.i iiL'n.iu nn,r,: .',, opposition to an
lna- sister States of Now England have hail abundant
occasion to recognise the true souree of all iu!i-i-naiii,;.al
difficulties which have arisen from the war of 1812 (inclusive) till now. In lS12,it was the Southern inlcivst,
whole ui
,ined by the institution of slavery,
gcr I" eonnneree, orbytt ' '
with their regular troops a
.ting Northern Presidents) v
:ish ll'ro
declared accordingly. Tim.
the galh
swamps,
and fall, as they #
>untry. On that occai
qCom
Florida war, the real cause of which was little undcrs
hy even the gallant New Knglanders, who went d
nto the swamps, among the "yelling Indian devils.
Southern slavehol
of the fire for them.' Neg
had escaped from the slave States into the swamn
Florida, and there the m
; slav,: Slates, the children of n
oh
e the TJni
ation. As all the world knows,
e and populous North was again burdened
it was with the'Mexican war. In a i
a Ana, we exhibited the p
the , vidian;,: whleh is before ihe c;
lhal of the fathers of their Kepublii
We have rebuked t
-Cass, Soule, Everett, so I others who hi
of the first Presidents and their const
led no«
1) tell tl
3 their acquisi
e from thei:
.ce in the i ., .
in of labourers'
the negro race in the enjoyment of
freedom, while still in the condition of labourers. As to
the circumstances in their own position, io which ihey
appeal tola' blind, they are these. The Czars of Rif-
::ia ,;,(. ■linking tools "of iln-ii,. eren .is 11,(1/ t.nl,„rty years. Th
amount at the 1
md the policy and aims of the Soutt
clearly in 1855 than their Fathers did in 1814,
prepared lo desire and claim that war shall bt
iltiof.il i.eiristatarc? And are they resolved to
their nation shall not meanwhile be plunged into
, the lawless aggressions of Americans on neighbouring
uperior qualifications (for Southei
stitm
worthy representation of
n part by a
itituency without ]
unworthin
ri1cana^tas°Bof the
Of ll
, ll.-'!;: ,,:,,.-'.! ■ :
prospect.
st friend
of their friendship
" Lher talk of it.
f the free, populor
m States, we ma
ie ground on which the elite
nertcans assert tnat an attempt to go to war v
II breakup the Union.
ay further talk of it. Mean-
ction of the frei,
telligent and prosperous Northern States,
Ohanning deferred foi
Texas. Then: arc very many mm,I men. in \ morion, who,
; Charming, are silent in ordinary times, but can speak
I act in the great crises of the Republic. Every one
those will assuredly consider a war of aggression—a
t with tbe liberating powers of Europe—a war with
free descendants of their own forefathers, a crime
mst not be perpetrated even if the penalty were
■ir I'lyiuoiitl, Koek nuisi crumble into the sea,
We are telling
i alarm the I
hen the North, altei louM'subuil
the minority from " "*
lolher the Coi
■iends of Republican
'" :r long'subj
(In- South.
was evident to all Europe, as it had long been to all wise
American-, that the Union must break up in discord,
=s its subjects could agree (and agree soonl to weed
the compromi
said, that whenev,
.Chfexch
'there!'!
M,d ae-iii-,;
lexclusi '
of the Unio
than she complains of the treast
which show how empty were h
She complains of property espi
i which renders it now unworkable,
wspapers of recent dates—the tidings
la: wry heart of the Ul
spoken thus. After referri
: theNortt ' "
in their org;
I . ■ ■■■:: '.■-
t carrying out its hosti"
Southern party, and
South, hi
K » Ili.li,
threats
lie Wi
Charleston, tin
and the
organizations, the days
" The Charleston
hostility to the
other l.iiii;.'-
of her weakness
I the
,ap ,1
i of iheir own supremacy in C
quarrel till now. Where they have
been by the nature of things, and run
North. They complain thai the Iree
populous, while they themselves are " i
and in a continually decreasing nuno
whose richne.s they hold out tempting
from Europe who, 1"
g fast
0 South ;
,nd loo;
arty year
her id her word. The fir;
war. The present time is remarkably favours
device. The Czar's emissaries have flattered t
the cupidity and the prejudices of that class (lar
despots or slaves. Spain
of a foreign
flattered the vanity,
" ' class (large in
.....
■
France with the war ; so that a great amo ' "
devoted to Southern inter*
page of American history will show to all poster:
This Cabinet is now the speaking-trumpet of the sk
tral) of silencing opposit
l\ ;.-b
',byn
' the <
Will the policy succeed ? Will the event justify the
or.th in her confidence that the North will allow her is
nih, ■■ ■■ ..
i'i, i:,rj:l:imlvov.ii.Uiiher;i,irel!n: Union for n j nrthei
rm or break it up at once. Which is the , i
ment proposal of wai
We think so for the
(ith England would be the
■nod war thiiu they had in that
to endure. They have mat
o the forfeiture <
ights of the free coloured
ound the Court-.
.umelious turning out of their envoy,
Charleston to assert the constitutional
, of the New England
twenty years a padlock 'on t
f Massachusetts on his ow
inting-press under the laws of that fre<
,vc borne more indignities than we hav
n threshold
! State. They
r throwing oil'the yoke,
ii prooably be decided by iin
Wi,.-; ' ,.,:■,
n (the " Cradle of Liberty "), called by " the property
city, to put down the i
very trade with the £
ties to preserve. Tv
ie free States of the A
that of the South—i
own account: aud impoverished, as
hich they pawned thei
ri ign commerce, and lhal. o I' the free States
upo-
md heavy tread. Whatever trade there may be witn the West Indies is worth
:.', d ihey will be slow to risk their other id
trade by collision with tin; great naval power of the w
Again, they truly revere the Act of Union frame
their fathers, as they have shown only too well by
exaggerated and costly dread of danger to it di
twenty years of political subserviency. They Imi
founders of the Republic exerted their utmost ingenuity
could I)
■, and that
that the free States find the vast North-West
hrown open to slavery by the repeal of the Mis
iromise — now that ihey see the free settle
2 actually the majority of i bo popnlai
" "leir polifict'
....: !
their prospects, in
them relatives by b
leges and social v
r against their best customei
heir comrades in political pri'
ami a-piral.ioiis. Ihe ullian
, ;"■,'... ■'. ■.'.■ ■ .. ■-...'-.
the life-Mood of both, i
a stab at Europe
e renowned for their
..aid of th-
s that quality. Prudent as they are, they know,
. else may be s
f. Pru," -*
Io, that their
Brave they are; capable of endurance, enthu-
I cause and render it victorious ; but their origin,
aining and individual
a tosuceeed in aggres-
i of the North know
filiibustering order of
that
,ofea«iOE.l imlita
ill ia,
L",a°Sarflll.1'Th
.^;z»,iLh.
ts rank among the fore:
o this mighty questio
by any number of unscr
ily and permanently represented
of the multitude. There fa ;>
■ :, i:e:S Of theVhok.
: their Plyni
with Americai
j that the proposal of war
ie Union. The danger is
States from all questionable e:
■■.',.: be I ween the nations through all provoca
. forget that an Everett, from the Nortl
.nifest destiny " of their
■"■■
do
haps othei
"maiiile.
peopled
h d
dies of Ihe
e hope that there are Northern
mwealth dowered with the highest hopes and 1
ANTI-SLAVERY AGITATION.
mber of Tke
err, has brought before your readers
lited States of Ame
sanctions given, as a
the system of slaveholdin;
ti-slavery agitation in
" le to the consiitu-
id others deny, to
wish to say anything further than that h
and his friends for him show sign; *" '
the wrong by continually obtrudi
they have never in,
holding contrary opinion; to thei
Atlantic should at length brea!
■
-Olillli- h
leader in (he anfi-siavery cans*
with personal mo
sions which tbey profe
States into our English I
i 'eo-litilil
ry truth, or as a fitting
! your columns taken up
e United
is of England and of the United i
which they profess 1,
on upholds slavery is one of s
I would beg you to permit n
oonit.
itutionsofl' '
Thel'ornn-ris based Oi
in written charters or law.-. \. i
, ritten document. The former is the growth o:
he latter the fruits of a Conference which sat s
ad-sixty years ago f
istory and constitutional lawj while i
ne document always to refer
lelf, we have the
lelming majority of the citi-
States of America; we have the legal
the United States you ha^
s of the various Courts. All t
certainly of very origl
the strong point of the
Ihi C,r
;y party
The word slave di
lis is, however, onl
tbe part of'Amerie;
re very desirous of
rongly objecting to its name
They speak of ''the poculia
-tude," 4c, clearly (
it slavery carries its
lery disproves the a:
; l . ■.. . ' : . i ■
n-stealer kno
linst God's ev
Before the Cousti
C:nor;i! 1
lioMo ,: I;
in the c;
holders main-
■.. 'A.-- that the
i formed, this euphemism
the c
I that
n £rivate li1
omiOii
tnha-
the garrison,
the refinements iif ibe Kngl
Inited States to discover thi
iously belonging to inhabitants of these States*
With a fact like thi- before ,e. wc must not conclude
slavery
•iiiii-i '
e the word slav
gue as
property
e Constitution,
.. and din
ral States which may h
n the Union
and excluding India:
free persons ; they a
it body, fie said." Wo api
■:■",: in our Struggl
low. when Wi' had scarcely a
supplicating His mercy and ]
it taxed, threc-Bfths of
it apprentices; they a
1 will prove
' ': member
n liberty,
i from our knees
n of our G'overmncnt provisions
tot, only pulling ii out. oi ils power io restrain and pre-
,-i'iif. the -lain: leaiiiJ- but even encouraging that most
nfamous traffic, by g.'r;;.,";' States pon. r nnd influence in
he Lin/on in proportion n.- toiij .■'."■ ■'''.'/ and wantonly
port Willi I!,,/ nuiil-i , /' man." 'i'lic: only property which
rives a vote at an election of repo -.■■i..;,lives ia slave pro-
"icrtyl Is not tills a direct, 'nin-lii.n of >hiveholding, and
Iocs it not in ten si the slavehuder in increasing the num.
>er of his slaves so that his political power may be increased?
Another clause in tbe Constitution, Art IV., Sec. 2,
st he germ of the Fugitive Slave law, providing that such
dgitive "shall bo delivered up on claim of the party to
vlie.ui such service or labour may be due." Thus tha
.,-.!■ --, ■
nan can be due lo another, iwainsi iin: will or wish of the
IV"., Sec. 4, the Constitution guarantees that
" " "Inion shall, if necessary, be em-
iestic violence.'' No doubt this
salutary clause ; but it pledges
the whole force of the Union
ployed to put down " dom
I could g
e at length than I have
too much of your space
i make my concluding